“Tokyo Drifting” by Glass Animals featuring Denzel Curry

"Tokyo Drifting" was the opening salvo for Dreamland, the third Glass Animals album, the first of five singles from a record that finally arrived in August 2020 after being pushed back. It's also where the American rapper Denzel Curry drops in as a guest, a nod to the R&B and hip-hop of the early 2000s that shaped the whole album.

Frontman Dave Bayley produced it, as he did almost everything on Dreamland, and wrote it with Curry and Caiphus Semenya; David Nakaji mixed. The album around it was Bayley's most autobiographical work yet, conceived after the band's drummer was nearly killed in a collision in 2018 and steeped in memories of his Texas childhood.

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